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The mystery of female desire deepens

When Gillian Anderson appealed to women to send her their sexual fantasies, she guaranteed strict anonymity – prompting a ‘torrent of unbridled passion from across the world’

28 September 2024

9:00 AM

28 September 2024

9:00 AM

Want: Sexual Fantasies submitted by Anonymous, collected by Gillian Anderson

Bloomsbury, pp.400, 18.99

Sexual fantasies, that dream you had last night, and ideas for novels have one thing in common: generally the best place for them is inside your head, never to be divulged. Until now, the major exception to the rule was Nancy Friday’s 1973 compilation of women’s fantasies, My Secret Garden,which sold more than two million copies worldwide.

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